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I Told You Soby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2024
A once-successful cryptocurrency investor, Michael Tanner, finds his empire destroyed overnight by a devastating crash, leading him into a spiraling journey of regret, desperation, and the harsh realization that the pursuit of wealth may have cost him everything that truly mattered.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Conceptionby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025
The very start of the Armageddon is captured on film for posterity by an extremely proud father, god help us all.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
10 Wordsby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2024
A gossip-prone boy, suspended from school, takes his sister's challenge to speak only ten words a day, discovering that silence can transform his life for the better.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Imaginary Worldby  Derrick Vernon
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2024
In a world on the brink of chaos, five unlikely heroes discover ancient stones infused with elemental powers. As they harness the abilities bestowed upon them by the Earth, Fire,Water,Air,and Spirit Stones, the diverse group must unite their strengths to overcome a global threat,battling dark forces that seek to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Together, they embark on a perilous journey to save humanity and restore balance to the elemental forces that govern the fate of the world.

Genre: Action/Adventure
31 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Tough Loveby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
In this dark coming-of-age tale a suicidal tween finds a reason to live after her maniacal new therapist shows her how to quiet the voices inside her head.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Definition of Loveby  Carlos Galinho Pires
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2023
A boy and a girl, both unconventional and counter-stereotypical, meet while searching for love, but insecurities and past traumas break them apart leading them to a fight for their own definition of love.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2023
Expelled from the Air Force during WW II for his reckless paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of Nazi infiltrators.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Standoffby  Adrian Milnes
Date Posted: 21 May 2024
A Cop and a Debt Collector are both after a Gambler, but the Cop has an ulterior motive.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Box of Antiquityby  Richard Campbell
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
Richard visits an old man to evict him for back taxes. The old man invites Richard to place a historic relic inside his Black Box of Antiquity. Richard travels back in time to the exact moment that relic is being used by its historic owner. One trip back in time, the Pope arranges for Hitler and his wife to escape from Germany to Argentina.

Genre: Sci-Fi
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2025
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inhospitable Takeoverby  Michael Hutchinson
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2025
An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Drowby  Adam Thomas Lumb
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
A pregnant couple in labour, trapped in an ambulance sinking into a remote island bog in the Orkney Islands during a storm, must fight alongside their paramedic to protect their unborn child from a creature disturbed from a Neolithic ruin and drawn to her giving birth.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
By a Threadby  Max Wigren
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2024
Dale, a once well respected nurse practitioner turned free clinic assistant, has the chance to win his 16 year old daughter and 11 year old son back over both emotionally and legally once his ex-wife lands herself in prison. This edgy, wacky, and hilarious dramedy unravels a unique blend of family chaos, raunchy comedy, personal growth, and legal escapades.

Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Underground Cageby  Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2024
Two martial arts master brothers wake up in an unknown underground cage but do not remember how they got there but are offered freedom win two deadly duels with dangerous rivals.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sunday Bestby  STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A resident of a retirement home who dresses in costumes to bring joy into the daily life of all residents must come to terms with the degrading health of his sidekick and best friend.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Soarby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A grieving girl endeavors to fly on a paper aeroplane.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life is a Roller Coaster... Sometimesby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2023
With its ups and downs, they say life is a roller-coaster, except when you’re trapped and unable to get off one. When an engaged11 couple becomes unwitting prisoners at the apex of a broken-down roller-coaster ride, the metaphor is never more (or less) apt.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Unbelongerby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
After becoming stranded in the desert, an outcast soldier is attacked by a stranger who looks just like him.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Everlasting Imageby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
Seductive wordplay is Jeanqúal’s introduction leading to his murders in a quest to create the perfect woman. 

Genre: Horror
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rumble in the Jungleby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2025
With 20 million watching, in 1974, Ali fights George Foreman in Zaire. He practices 'rope-a-dope' and wears foreman out. Later, Howard Cosell and Dick Cavett interview Ali. Finally, Ali lights the torch for 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Parkinson tremors.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Unmutedby  Derrick Vernon
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2024
In the aftermath of a tragic prank gone awry, a once-mute prodigious athlete gains an unexpected voice but chooses to communicate solely through sign language as a cover. Enduring relentless humiliation, he transforms into a vengeful monster, chanting ominously before seeking revenge on those responsible for his torment.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
My Weekendby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
Spending the weekend creating a suicide vest for his young daughter, a disillusioned father has a terrible plan for her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Detective With Unique Talentby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
Christina, an excellent police detective, has a unique talent to feel a murderer in a person and this helps to quickly reveal and catch him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Schrödinger's Momby  Phil Abrams
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024
A man with autism must face the new reality of being parentless, and yet his neurodiverse perspective helps his caretaker discover there’s more than one way to look at life.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pillow Girlby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2024
As a little girl, Kayley never lost a pillow fight. Now an adult, she decides to use this talent to fight evil and impact the world. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Action/Adventure
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bug Boyby  J. J. Hillard
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025
A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby  Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Candleby  John Francis Daly
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2024
A sick girl on her death bed receives a candle that, when lit, brings forth new vitality, along with a being who holds secrets of the Universe.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Happy Lifeby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Misfortuneby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2024
Two hipsters get more than they bargained for when they break open their fortune cookies. (Surreal horror/comedy. 1 location, limited dialogue.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Aisle Browsingby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2024
A run-down man with an active imagination blames his wife for all the wrongs in his life so he searches the aisles of a hardware store in search for the perfect murderous tool.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From Rat to Bossby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2024
“From Rat to Boss”—Before he became the infamous Mafia kingpin, "Lucky" Luciano made a secret betrayal to save himself—an act that, years later, threatens to destroy his empire and the myth of his loyalty."

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
See You In Courtby  Linda Gould
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Miranda, a Homeland Security bureaucrat, is having a tryst with Pete, a handsome but crude major league ballplayer. One early morning encounter is interrupted by two policemen, who take Petie in for questioning about the apparent kidnapping of his teammate, Manny Chavez ... who is engaged to Miranda's sportswriter sister, Jessica. Manny was about to testify against several teammates in a steroids hearing.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fun with Wordsby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2024
Six tales told by a man sitting in the shadows explain how people use words in the wrong context.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mariliseby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
Close-knit lesbian sisters in the Hamptons find themselves in dire financial straits, seek the help of an older, well-heeled lesbian who becomes romantically involved with one of them, engendering jealousy and friction, and whose overzealousness leads to her death in a tragic accident.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dollby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A mysterious elf doll arrives on Helen's front door step on Christmas Eve and weird stuff starts to happen.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sentinelby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Almost By Designby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2025
When her web of reality moves a young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer to seek employment as a home decor designer in New York City, she lands among a multicultural group whose mismatched goals result in both poetic and situational comedy.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
On the Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2024
When two know-it-all female millennials search unsuccessfully for love, it's their Mother who comes out the winner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Late Waitby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2023
If listening is so important, then it’s hardly surprising that turning a deaf ear to good advice creates an even greater problem.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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